"Palm Sunday Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. In Catholic, Episcopal, and other denominations, and in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, worship services on Palm Sunday include a procession of the faithful carrying palms, representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuring palms in unfavorable climates led to their substitution with branches of native trees, including box, olive, willow, and yew. The Sunday"
"Holy Saturday Holy Saturday (), the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as Holy and Great Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, Joyous Saturday, or Easter Eve, and called ""Joyous Saturday"" or ""the Saturday of Light"" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter. It commemorates the day that Jesus' body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell. In Eastern Orthodoxy this day, known as Holy and Great Saturday, is also called The Great Sabbath since it is"
"Holy Week Holy Week (Latin: ""Hebdomas Sancta"" or ""Hebdomas Maior"", ""Greater Week""; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, ""Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas"", ""Holy and Great Week"") in Christianity is the week just before Easter. It is also the last week of Lent, in the West, – Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday – are all included. However, Easter Sunday, which begins the season of Eastertide, is not. Although, traditions observing the Easter Triduum may overlap or displace part of Holy Week or Easter itself within that additional liturgical period. Holy"
"with Saint Mary Magdalene for Jesus; therefore the event is markedly similar to a mourning event among the people. Holy Week Holy Week (Latin: ""Hebdomas Sancta"" or ""Hebdomas Maior"", ""Greater Week""; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, ""Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas"", ""Holy and Great Week"") in Christianity is the week just before Easter. It is also the last week of Lent, in the West, – Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday – are all included. However, Easter Sunday, which begins the season of Eastertide, is not. Although, traditions observing the"
"Quinquagesima Quinquagesima is one of the names used in the Western Church for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. It is also called Quinquagesima Sunday, Quinquagesimae, Estomihi, Shrove Sunday, or the Sunday next before Lent. The name Quinquagesima originates from Latin ""quinquagesimus"" (fiftieth). This is in reference to the fifty days before Easter Day using inclusive counting which counts both Sundays (normal counting would count only one of these). Since the forty days of the Lent do not include Sundays, the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, succeeds Quinquagesima Sunday by only three days. The name Estomihi is derived from the"
"Holy Monday Holy Monday or Great and Holy Monday (Greek: ""Μεγάλη Δευτέρα"", ""Megale Deutera"") is the Monday of Holy Week, which is the week before Easter. It is the third day of Holy Week in Eastern Christianity, after Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, and the second day of Holy Week in Western Christianity, after Palm Sunday. The Gospels tell us of some of the events that actually occurred on the day of the Biblical Holy Monday. Some of the most notable and recognizable of these were the cursing of the fig tree (, ), the questioning of Jesus' authority (),"
"called Passion Sunday, has the official name of the First Sunday in Passiontide, and Palm Sunday has the additional name of the Second Sunday in Passiontide. In Sunday and ferial Masses (but not on feasts celebrated in the first of these two weeks) the Gloria Patri is omitted at the Entrance Antiphon and at the Lavabo, as well as in the responds in the Divine Office. In the post-1969 form of the Roman Rite, ""Passion Sunday"" and ""Palm Sunday"" are both names for the Sunday before Easter, officially called ""Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion"". The former Passion Sunday became"
"the Octave Day of Easter (also known as St. Thomas Sunday or Divine Mercy Sunday). The term ""Easter Saturday"" is also used colloquially to refer to Holy Saturday a.k.a. Easter Eve – a week before the religious holiday of Easter Saturday, probably because of references to the Easter weekend. Many people, especially religious authorities, regard this alternative meaning as inaccurate, but it remains in common usage. The use of the term ""Bright Saturday"" avoids this confusion by clearly referring to the Saturday 6 days after Easter Sunday. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the"
"service called the Easter Vigil. The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the Octave of Easter, and each day is prefaced with ""Easter"", e.g. Easter Monday (a public holiday in many countries), Easter Tuesday (a much less widespread public holiday), etc. Easter Saturday is therefore the Saturday ""after"" Easter Sunday. The day before Easter is properly called Holy Saturday. Eastertide, or Paschaltide, the season of Easter, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts until the day of Pentecost, seven weeks later. In Eastern Christianity, the spiritual preparation for Easter begins with Great Lent, which starts on Clean"
"day before Palm Sunday is Sabbatum in Traditione Symboli. This, the Blessing of the Font, the extra Masses pro Baptizatis in Ecclesiâ Hyemali on Easter Eve and every day of Easter Week, and the name of the first Sunday after Easter ""in albis depositis"", show even more of a lingering memory of the old Easter Baptisms than the similar survivals in the Roman Rite. Holy Week is Hebdomada Authentica. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter Day are named as in the Roman Rite. The five Sundays after Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi follow, as in"
"day before Easter), rather than the Saturday following Easter. While the first day of Easter Week is called ""Easter Day"" or ""Easter Sunday"", the other days in the week may be designated according to any of the following patterns: (1) ""Monday of Easter Week"" (e.g. in the Church of England's ""Common Worship"" calendar), (2) ""Monday in Easter Week"" (e.g., in the Anglican Church's ""Book of Common Prayer"" calendar), or (3) ""Easter Monday"". In former years, Easter, as the most important celebration in Christianity, was observed for a week, and it still is celebrated in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic"
"Easter Easter, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as ""Holy Week""—it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well"
"Shrove Monday Shrove Monday, sometimes known as Collopy Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, is a Christian observance falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday every year. A part of the English traditional Shrovetide celebrations of the week before Lent, the Monday precedes Shrove Tuesday. As the Monday before Ash Wednesday, it is part of diverse Carnival celebrations which take place in many parts of the Christian world, from Greece, to Germany, to the Mardi Gras and Carnival of the Americas. The word ""shrove"" is the past tense of the English verb ""shrive"", which means to obtain absolution"
"with a pure heart. This is the last day before Lent when non-lenten food is eaten. In Lutheranism is combined with (Paul's praise of love). Composers writing cantatas for Estomihi Sunday include: Quinquagesima Quinquagesima is one of the names used in the Western Church for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. It is also called Quinquagesima Sunday, Quinquagesimae, Estomihi, Shrove Sunday, or the Sunday next before Lent. The name Quinquagesima originates from Latin ""quinquagesimus"" (fiftieth). This is in reference to the fifty days before Easter Day using inclusive counting which counts both Sundays (normal counting would count only one of these)."
"and Ash Wednesday. In the Revised Common Lectionary the Sunday before Lent is designated ""Transfiguration Sunday"", and the gospel reading is the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus from Matthew, Mark, or Luke. Some churches whose lectionaries derive from the RCL, e.g. the Church of England, use these readings but do not designate the Sunday ""Transfiguration Sunday"". In the Eastern Orthodox Church, its equivalent, the Sunday before Great Lent, is called ""Forgiveness Sunday"", ""Maslenitsa Sunday"", or ""Cheesefare Sunday"". The latter name comes because this Sunday concludes Maslenitsa, the week in which butter and cheese may be eaten, which are prohibited"
"to the return of chanting the ""Gloria in Excelsis Deo"" during the Easter Vigil. In predominantly Roman Catholic Poland, Święconka (), meaning ""the blessing of the Easter baskets"", on Holy Saturday, is one of the most enduring and beloved traditions. Holy Saturday Holy Saturday (), the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as Holy and Great Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, Joyous Saturday, or Easter Eve, and called ""Joyous Saturday"" or ""the Saturday of Light"" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which"
"countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation. In such countries it is celebrated on the following Sunday (the forty-third day of Eastertide). The nine days from that feast until the Saturday before Pentecost (inclusive) are days of preparation for the Holy Spirit the Paraclete, which inspired the form of prayer called a novena. Before the 1969 revision of the calendar, the Sundays were called First Sunday ""after"" Easter, Second Sunday ""after"" Easter, etc. The Sunday preceding the feast of the Ascension of the Lord was sometimes, though not officially, called Rogation Sunday, and when the Ascension had"
"Sexagesima Sexagesima , or, in full, Sexagesima Sunday, is the name for the second Sunday before Ash Wednesday in the Gregorian Rite liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church, and also in that of some Protestant denominations, particularly those with Anglican and Lutheran origins. The name ""Sexagesima"" is derived from the Latin ""sexagesimus"", meaning ""sixtieth,"" and appears to be a back-formation of Quinquagesima, the term formerly used to denote the last Sunday before Lent (the latter name alluding to the fact that there are fifty days between that Sunday and Easter, if one counts both days themselves in the total"
"Holy Wednesday In Christianity, Holy Wednesday, also called Spy Wednesday, or Good Wednesday (in Western Christianity), and Holy and Great Wednesday (in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches), is the Wednesday of Holy Week, the week before Easter. It is followed by Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday). In the New Testament account of Holy Week, after Palm Sunday, the Sanhedrin gathered and plotted to kill Jesus before the feast of Pesach. On the Wednesday before his death, Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper. As he sat at the supper table with his disciples, a woman named"
"Easter Saturday Easter Saturday, on the Christian calendar, is the Saturday following the festival of Easter, the Saturday of Easter or Bright Week. In the liturgy of Western Christianity it is the last day of Easter Week, sometimes referred to as the Saturday of Easter Week or Saturday in Easter Week. In the liturgy of Eastern Christianity it is the last day of Bright Week, and called Bright Saturday, The Bright and Holy Septave Saturday of Easter Eve, or The Bright and Holy Septave Paschal Artos and Octoechoes Saturday of Iscariot's Byzantine Easter Eve. Easter Saturday is the day preceding"
"Septuagesima Septuagesima (in full, Septuagesima Sunday) is the name for the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is sometimes applied to the seventy days starting on Septuagesima Sunday and ending on the Saturday after Easter. Alternatively, the term is sometimes applied also to the period commonly called Shrovetide or Gesimatide (the Pre-Lenten Season) that begins on this day and ends on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins. The other two Sundays in this period of the liturgical year are called Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, the latter sometimes also called ""Shrove Sunday."" The"
"Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries, among other names) is the Christian holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the foot washing (Maundy) and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles, as described in the canonical gospels. It is the fifth day of Holy Week, preceded by Holy Wednesday and followed by Good Friday. ""Maun-"" is from Old Norse, present of munu meaning shall or will; akin to Old English gemynd meaning mind. The date is always between March 19 and"
"disciples, with Thomas the Apostle present, on the Sunday following his resurrection. A traditional name in English is Low Sunday, perhaps given this name because of the contrast with the high festival of Easter on the preceding Sunday, or the word ""Low"" may be a corruption of Latin ""Laudes"", the first word of a sequence in use in the Sarum Rite. Another name is Quasimodo Sunday, from the first words of the introit in Latin. Easter Week was known as ""ebdomada alba"" (white week) or ""in albis"" (in white), because of the white robes that those who had been baptized"
"Easter Week Easter Week is the period of seven days from Easter Sunday through the Saturday following. It follows Holy Week. In the Latin Rite of Catholicism, Anglican and other Western churches, Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. The term is sometimes inaccurately used to mean the week ""before"" Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week, and particularly confusing in this context is the secular misuse of the term ""Easter Saturday"" to refer to the day known liturgically as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the"
"found in the liturgical book known as the ""Triódion"" (which continues to Easter Even). It is 22 days long because it begins on the Sunday before Septuagesima, but not 24 since the Byzantine Lent commences on a Monday instead of a Wednesday. In 1894, Oscar Wilde told the actor Charles Brookfield, who had complained about Wilde's conducting rehearsals for his play ""An Ideal Husband"" on Christmas Day, ""the only festival of the Church I keep is Septuagesima"". Septuagesima Septuagesima (in full, Septuagesima Sunday) is the name for the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is"
"religious holiday, including Good Friday, but only so long as the state can provide a valid secular purpose that coincides with the obvious religious purpose of the holiday. Good Friday is the Friday before Easter, which is calculated differently in Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity (see Computus for details). Easter falls on the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, the full moon on or after 21 March, taken to be the date of the vernal equinox. The Western calculation uses the Gregorian calendar, while the Eastern calculation uses the Julian calendar, whose 21 March now corresponds to the Gregorian"
"19 Third Friday: January 19 Third Sunday: January 21 11th Sunday before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): January 21 Sunday closest to January 22: January 21 Last week of January: January 22–26 Fourth Monday: January 22 63 days before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): January 27 Last Saturday: January 27 9th Sunday before Easter in Western Christianity: January 28 10th Sunday before Pascha in Eastern Christianity: January 28 Last Sunday: January 28 January 30 or the nearest Sunday: January 28 Monday Closest to January 29: January 29 Last Monday in January: January 29 Second Monday before Clean Monday in Eastern Christianity: January 29–31 January"
"issues and eliminated the difference in date between the Eastern and Western churches. The reform was proposed for implementation starting in 2001, but it was not ultimately adopted by any member body. In January 2016, Christian churches again considered the idea of a fixed and unified date of Easter, probably either the second or third Sunday in April. The WCC presented comparative data of the relationships: In Western Christianity, Easter is preceded by Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days (not counting Sundays). The week before Easter,"
"always coincide with the astronomical full moon. The moveable feasts are given below: Septuagesima Sunday (9th Sunday before Easter)<br> Sexagesima Sunday (8th Sunday before Easter)<br> Quinquagesima Sunday (7th Sunday before Easter)<br> Ash Wednesday (Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday)<br> Passion Sunday (Sunday 2 weeks before Easter)<br> Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary (Friday after 2nd Sunday before Easter)<br> Palm Sunday (Sunday before Easter)<br> Holy Thursday (Thursday before Easter)<br> Good Friday (Friday before Easter)<br> Holy Saturday (Saturday before Easter)<br> Easter Sunday, the Solemnity of Solemnities, the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ<br> Low Sunday (Sunday after Easter)<br> The Solemnity of"
"for details). Easter Saturday Easter Saturday, on the Christian calendar, is the Saturday following the festival of Easter, the Saturday of Easter or Bright Week. In the liturgy of Western Christianity it is the last day of Easter Week, sometimes referred to as the Saturday of Easter Week or Saturday in Easter Week. In the liturgy of Eastern Christianity it is the last day of Bright Week, and called Bright Saturday, The Bright and Holy Septave Saturday of Easter Eve, or The Bright and Holy Septave Paschal Artos and Octoechoes Saturday of Iscariot's Byzantine Easter Eve. Easter Saturday is the"
"Bright Week Bright Week, Pascha Week or Renewal Week () is the name used by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches for the period of seven days beginning on Easter and continuing up to (but not including) the following Sunday, which is known as Thomas Sunday. Latin Rite and other Christian groups such as Anglicans refer to this period as Easter Week, not to be confused with the Octave of Easter, which includes the following Sunday. The entire week following Easter is to be set aside by Orthodox Christians for the celebration of the Resurrection. According to the"
"day of liturgical celebration"", that comes from the Latin ""feria quinta"" used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods. Icelandic also uses the term ""fifth day"" (""Fimmtudagur""). Quakers traditionally referred to Thursday as ""Fifth Day"" eschewing the pagan origin of the English name ""Thursday"". In the Christian tradition, Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter — the day on which the Last Supper occurred. Also known as ""Sheer Thursday"" in the United Kingdom, it is traditionally a day of cleaning and giving out Maundy money there. Holy Thursday is part"
"the former usage is somewhat preserved in the formal name for the Sunday before Easter, ""Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion"". However, the Preface called that of the Passion of the Lord I (The Power of the Cross) is used in the fifth week of Lent and the Preface of the Passion of the Lord II (The Victory of the Passion) is used on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week. Passiontide is observed in many provinces of the Anglican Communion, for example in the Church of England. In the ""Common Worship"" liturgy, material proper to Passiontide is used from"